Re: Initiates and Orlanthi from Peter Metcalfe on 2004-10-13 (HeroQuest-Rules)

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:40:02 +1300

At 08:09 PM 10/12/04 -0400, you wrote:

>Something Greg wrote during the assorted traditions/practice/etc.. posts
>reminded me
>that Initiates really are "chosen by their god". And that's fine, except
>that when you tie
>that in with the fact that all Orlanthi initiate, then it seems the
>Orlanth (at least the
>Sartarite Orlanthi) are a pretty fanatically religious bunch.

IMO you are misinterpreting the comment. There are two decisions here 1) whether you initiate or not and 2) who you initiate to. Normally the first is made as a conscious human decision while the second is determined by the gods.

So the Orlanthi initiate all their people because they choose to do so. It's just the way things have been done. That does not make them any more fanatical than the Dara Happans who only initiate a minority of their people. It just means that their culture puts greater stress on _personal_ sacrifices to the gods.

--Peter Metcalfe

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